I have been using gnome-blog for posting the last couple of blogpost. And Its quite neat, its an panel applet and it makes posting so much easier since its integrated into gnome. I feel that its missing some features like multiple drafts and the ability to insert images. Inserting images should be possible, with the most recent version, if the blog supports it. But well i do not know if wordpress supports it or if the version in the ubuntu repositories is the most recent. I tried getting the tarball but there was some dependency issues.

Speaking of panel applets i highly recommend bubblemon. It shows cpu, bandwith and memory usage as a “bubbling aquarium”.